The Five Star Weekend Official Podcast
Jul 30, 2026 · 32 min · 12 segments
Elin discusses the season’s penultimate episode with Gemma Chan, who plays Gigi, and Harlow Jane, who plays Caroline. They consider Gigi’s journey, discover surprising parallels between their…
Ellen HildebrandHost
Harlow JaneGuest
Gemma ChanGuest
I'm a rum girl through and through, so I'm here with an absolutely delicious glass of strawberry daiquiri.
Hi, Ellen.
Ellen, we love the five star friends concept.
Do you think five is the right number in real life, or would yours look different? And are those friendships shaped more by age and life stages, or by who we are at that given time?
Of course, if I was joining you, we would replace the wine with the On The Rock strawberry daiquiri.
I feel like three can cause triangulation, where one person is always left out.
If you have four people, you tend to have two groups of two, or two pairs, and that's not what we want.
So Hollis is growing up in high school, then her college, then the woman she raised her children with, and then that elusive unicorn, the friend that she met as an adult, after everyone was out of the house.
I'm a rum girl through and through, so I'm here with an absolutely delicious glass of strawberry daiquiri.
Hi, Ellen.
Ellen, we love the five star friends concept.
Do you think five is the right number in real life, or would yours look different? And are those friendships shaped more by age and life stages, or by who we are at that given time?
Of course, if I was joining you, we would replace the wine with the On The Rock strawberry daiquiri.
I feel like three can cause triangulation, where one person is always left out.
If you have four people, you tend to have two groups of two, or two pairs, and that's not what we want.
So Hollis is growing up in high school, then her college, then the woman she raised her children with, and then that elusive unicorn, the friend that she met as an adult, after everyone was out of the house.
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